Delta life : exploring dynamic environments where rivers meet the sea / edited by Franz Krause and Mark Harris.

"Proposing a series of innovative steps towards better understanding human lives at the interstices of water and land, this volume includes eight ethnographies from deltas around the world. The book presents 'delta life' with intimate descriptions of the predicaments, imaginations and activities of delta inhabitants. Conceptually, the collection develops 'delta life' as a metaphor for approaching continual and intersecting sociocultural, economic and material transformations more widely. The book revolves around questions of hydrosociality, volatility, rhythms and scale. It thereby yields insights into people's lives that conventional, hydrological approaches to deltas cannot provide"-- Provided by publisher

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Intro -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- Life at Water's Edge -- Chapter 1 -- Displacing the Delta: Notes on the Anthropology of the Earth's Physical Features -- Chapter 2 -- The Global Swamp: The Amphibious as a Figure of Heterotopia -- Chapter 3 -- Stagnation: Waterflows and the Politics of Stranded Matter in La Mojana, Colombia -- Chapter 4 -- Economy, Identity and Hydrology: Towards a Holistic Approach to Intersecting Volatilities in the Mackenzie Delta, Canada

Chapter 5 -- 'This Tide Will Be a Good Tide': On Movement, Anticipative Waiting and Tricking on the Islands of the Parnaiba Delta, Brazil -- Chapter 6 -- Gleaning Time: Practice, Pause and Anticipation in the Sine-Saloum Delta, Senegal -- Chapter 7 -- Lived Histories of Flows and Sediments in a Turkish Delta -- Chapter 8 -- Available, Yet Unavailable: Anchoring Land in the Ayeyarwady Delta, Myanmar -- Conclusion -- Confluences and Distributaries in Delta Life -- Index

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